Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-12-29
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1t is reported from Butte City, Nj. T.,
tina. a tHclye-year-old boothlack there
has $500 hich he has earned deposited
i'm one Of the city banks.
Thomas Perry walkcd from Terre
Hautc 70 Disco. a distance Of five
miles, in fifty-eight minutes Oh his ODD
birthday. He made tie last mile in
e ght minutes.
Elias Wayman of York State is 104
years old, and has used tobacco for
nmety-four years. He fears it will be
the death of him yet if he cannot break
off the habit.
Ono more sign of the economics OF
progress, says the New York Times,
'.is that it is contemplated to make
wax candles out of sugar-cane. 1t
Yields cerosine. which, has u high
melting point"
Thoughtless and inconsiderate
Bostonians are laughing at the En-
glish young woman who recently, after
hearing much praise of butternuts,
said: Eat what season of the year
are doughnuts ripe?"
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
card playing is q social craze in Lon
don, and that thousands of young
ladies in the city are familiar wnh
the mysteries of the Jackpot poker
and other like utensils. p
A Boston man who is manufacturer
of raspberry jam says that no rasp-
berrys are used in making it. What IS
used, it appears, are tomatoes, glucose
and hayseed, and little prepared
raspberry flavor.
The Hastings Gazette-Jo"rHal
sports q corncob pipe upon which
potato has been grated. 1t
is considered the rarest jewel in the
snop, as the pipe reduces the tuber TO d
FASTING consistency.
1t is reported that the English church
establishment receives yearly in tithes
about $4,000, 900 OF this $4,000, 600
goes for salaries of clergymen and the
remainder goes to hospitals, schools,
church buildings, and the like.
At Bu~5 Hill, Ohio, Charles Smith
shot blue heron at his carp pond,
and found forty-seyen fish in its
stomach From the appearance Of
the carp they had just been swallowed,
and constituted only one meal for the
bird.
Under recent decision of the North
Carolina Supreme Court a Judge IN
that state has issued warrant for the
arrest Of a man for committing an
assault with a deadly weapon, 'to-
wit, a certain vicious and large bull
dog.
Archbishop Heiss of Milwaukee says
that of the 5000, 900 Roman catholics
of the United States 1000 coo are Ger
mans. OF the eleven archbshops and
sixty bishops only one archbishop, DR..
Hess himself. and eleven bishops are
German.
Capt. A. K Ham, '49er, died re-
Gently in San Jose, Cal, worth about
~ 900, 600 He was n bachelor, and
occupied a room in his livery stable.
His heirs are two brothers, one of
whom lives in Oakland and the other
in Santa Cruz.
A woman in red dress was walk
ing in the streets of Zacatecas, Mexico,
when a bull, attracted by the scarlet
color rushed at her and tossed her sky
high. She alighted on the ground, on
her hustle, on the other side of a wall,
and without injury.
While a log was being sawed through
in a North Michigan lumber camp the
saw cut in two a large moccasin snake
that was encased in the heart of the
wood. There was no opening at
either end of the log, and the wonder
is how the snake got there.
St. Joseph, Mo, is expecting to have
centerarau II. Ussleton Compton,
who was ninety-niue years old in May
last, has lived there for forty-seyeR
years, and his mental and bodily vigor
warrant the belief that lie win reach
his one-hundredth birthday.
The Santa Cruz Surf tolls of an i'm
mcnse sea turtle which was caught
near Capitola the other day. 1t
measured eight feet from the tip OF
its nose to the tip of its tail and its
weight is guessed by local guesser to
be about one thousand pounds.
A silk dress coat has reached Boston
and made tremendous sensation
among the dudes 1t is really a
handsome garment, made of heavy,
scorded, lusterless silk, which. at little
distance, looks like the richest of black
broadcloth 1t is a Paris fashion.
A Belmont county (Ohio) farmer re-
ioces in a heterogeneous collection of
freaks, consisting Of a pig whose feet
arc split so as to give it the appearance
of having toes, another with three
ears. a cat with one ear growing
wrong side out, and a boy with three
thumbs.
When q settler in the Northwest
territory wants to 90 back to Ontario
to be married the Canadian Pacific
railroad sells him a matrimonial ticket
Mt the usual rate, and on presenting
the return coupon and a marriage Ger
titicate he is entitled to free transport
tation for his bride.
The Santa Rosa Republican tells of
an indulgent mother in that town
whose 14-year-old son is confined in
the county jail, and who sent him n